A host of critics are enthusing about Say Her Name, a novel by Francisco Goldman that tests the boundaries between fiction and memoir. In the Washington Post, Roxana Robinson writes that “Grief is the engine here, and Goldman tells his story with longing and regret.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Karen L. Long calls it “harrowing and often splendid reading.” “I’ve rarely read a more affecting or damaging book,” writes the Quarterly Conversation’s Jeff Waxman. At NPR.org, Phoebe Connelly writes that its “power of description lulls you into forgetting that you're reading a tragedy.” Sounding a contrarian note, the New York Times’ Dwight Garner writes that Say Her Name is “a moving but blurry book that is the result of a puzzling aesthetic decision.”